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Conditions for Collaboration
Wellesley and other American colleges that collaborate with Peking University respond to its controversial decision to fire Xia Yeliang allegedly for political reasons.
Measuring Equity in South Africa
New index compares progress at universities in transforming themselves, post-apartheid. Not all academics applaud the tool.
A Call for Mandatory Math
An Australian report says the disappearance of prerequisites in science and mathematics fields has many students entering universities unprepared, and urges they be reintroduced.
Has China Failed Key Test?
Peking U. fires economics professor in widely watched test case for academic freedom in China -- an outcome that some Western academics have said should raise questions about partnerships there.
Going Global
Laureate Education has quietly become an 800,000-student behemoth and a major player in global higher education. So what is the company, exactly?
All the Freshmen in Paris
Centenary College of Louisiana plans to send all its 2014 fall freshmen to France in the first days of class. Is this the future of study abroad or PR?
A Euro Welcome in English
Report finds significant increase in master's programs taught in English in continental Europe.
Secret Agents
Survey finds that just 13 percent of international applicants who used education agents knew whether they earned commissions from colleges.